Dungeons and Directories, an exploration game in your file explorer
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#2This is very cool.
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#3I remember when I was 6 and my dad brought home an Osbourne for me to play with. Just using CPM felt like dungeon diving to this weird world where you might find a loot in the form of a game or something.
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#4Ah… I think I vaguely remember a similar older program that would (optionally, of course!) as a funny option delete the files when you “defeated” them.
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#5I remember when I was 6 and my dad brought home an Osbourne for me to play with. Just using CPM felt like dungeon diving to this weird world where you might find a loot in the form of a game or something.
I completely agree with this comment. I could have spent all day on my C64 without even having a game to play or knowing how to code beyond PRINT and GOTO. Hacking around on a computer back in the 80s made me feel like I was part of a secret club and that, at any moment, I was going to live out War Games or some such (especially once we had a modem). The possibilities seemed limitless!
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#6I remember when I was 6 and my dad brought home an Osbourne for me to play with. Just using CPM felt like dungeon diving to this weird world where you might find a loot in the form of a game or something.
As a young teen, I joined a local Commodore users group and at the meetings you could buy the latest monthly floppy disk for a small fee, and you never knew what you would find on it.
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#7Ah… I think I vaguely remember a similar older program that would (optionally, of course!) as a funny option delete the files when you “defeated” them.
You might be thinking of this Doom mod that create monsters for each system process and would kill an actual process every time you killed one:
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#8Strange they used shortcuts on Windows, as Windows has had links since Vista:
https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2016/12/02/symlin...
Either this is because it's not at all well known, or because they think some users will be on XP. (Which would be strange)
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#9Ah… I think I vaguely remember a similar older program that would (optionally, of course!) as a funny option delete the files when you “defeated” them.
Or Operation: Inner Space. It used the file system to generate sectors to visit to clear viruses from your EXEs, and collecting non-contaminated EXEs to use as currency.
It works great with Windows' backwards compatibility, but modern filesystems have so many thousands of directories the game is now impossible to complete.
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#10> In the end, the current version of the game create 41,514 directories, 15,2041 files (mostly empty files with messages in their names), and 45,399 links, which makes it rather unplayable for those unfortunate enough to try running it on a mechanical hard drive.
https://github.com/wheybags/DungeonsAndDirectories/blob/mast...
Be warned if you're not using an SSD!